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Palliolum Minutulum
''Palliolum'' is a genus of scallops, marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene to the Quaternary (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago). Species Species within the genus ''Lissochlamys'' include: * ''Palliolum cibaoense'' † Waller 2011 * ''Palliolum excisum'' † (Bronn, 1831) * ''Palliolum gerardi'' † Nyst 1835 * ''Palliolum guersi'' Wienrich 1999 * ''Palliolum incomparabile'' (Risso, 1826) * ''Palliolum mellevillei'' † d'Orbigny 1850 * ''Palliolum minutulum'' Dijkstra & Southgate, 2000 * ''Palliolum striatum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776) * ''Palliolum tigerinum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776) * ''Palliolum tigrinum'' † Müller 1776 References Pectinidae Bivalve genera {{Pectinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''Ēṓs'', 'Eos, Dawn') and (''kainós'', "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch.See: *Letter from William Whewell to Charles Lyell dated 31 January 1831 in: * From p. 55: "The period next antecedent we shall call Eocene, from ήως, aurora, and χαινος, recens, because the extremely small proportion of living species contained in these strata, indicates what may be considered the first commencement, or ''dawn'', of the existing state of the animate creation." The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by a brief period in which the concentration of the carbon isoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
